CVE-2017-7869

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.028 · 87 %ileDEEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.84% (87th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
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95 products
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Who says so?
5 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

GnuTLS before 2017-02-20 has an out-of-bounds write caused by an integer overflow and heap-based buffer overflow related to the cdk_pkt_read function in opencdk/read-packet.c. This issue (which is a subset of the vendor's GNUTLS-SA-2017-3 report) is fixed in 3.5.10.

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remediations

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A vendor fix is available.

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cvss

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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–8.1

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9
v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6
v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US
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affected products (95)

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advisories (2)

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  • RHSA-2017:2292Red Hat Security Advisory: gnutls security, bug fix, and enhancement update2017-08-01csaf · redhat_csafUS

    An update for gnutls is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

  • WID-SEC-W-2026-3115GnuTLS: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2017-04-17csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in GnuTLS ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

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references (13)

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